Oh yes that one and the TAKE BACK remix were her best so far.
The Come Over one was good,too^^

Btw: I love the longer ahir, too.
It reminds me of BEST~first things~ era.
But the blonde/rose hair was great, too!!

Kuu at another sky:

they showed a lot of EPIC moments: Ningyo Hime @ ss tour, SHAKE IT @ TRICK tour, Making of Maroc, etc.

:love

Aw, lucky Kumi fanclub memebers :grumpy.

Official pics from the show:

http://i42.tinypic.com/65absg.jpghttp://i44.tinypic.com/29qjdd3.jpghttp://i43.tinypic.com/5o6ywh.jpg

Thanks to Hikki-kun at JPM

Love the moment where the Guy from the Maroc photobook sends greetings to Kuu! And her with the kids! It's so lovely.^^

^ Aw, she looks really adorable with that hair style! ^_^ The top is cute, too. It's a very simple look, but it looks great on her, especially 'cause you usually see her in something drastic.

she looks mature, classy, elegant & gorgeous. :heart

Aww...look at my beautiful Kuu. :heart

She looks so mature & sophisticated.

She doesn't look dirty & sexy, she's elegant now

Kumi looks great! :yes

She looks good :D

She has had the cutest hair styles lately! :)

Koda Kumi x Show Luo - Stay (Fanmade MV)
Live in Taiwan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-VuTxcq_TM

I loved the fanmade video ♥

Kuu looks pretty !! :D

omg u guys thanks for the videos <3 u make me love kuu even more now :/ u r gonna have to pay for my bills when i start getting all her discography lolol

^ xDDD

Fancam of ECSTASY @ Tokyo Girls Collection 2010:

^ OMG HOTNESSSS!!
someone should post the download-able file!! i want the whole performance!!

lol are people shipping Kuu & Show together? xD

Wow! Great video quality! She looks great! Thanks.

whoa. enorm-igantic screen 0_o

those pants are soo weird!
i absolutely adore her hair in that 'another sky' clips though
thank you tsubasa for posting everything up ^^

She's looking good! :luv2

Today was bradcasted the Livejack Special II

Setlist:

01. Moon Crying
02. You're So Beautiful
03. Can We Go Back

Thumbs by LiDaYu:

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ziy7iq_th.jpg

hope someone recorded the live in HD :3

She looks sorta good :D and I wish someone recorded that too

omg she has so many lives nowadays!

^ Anniversaryyyyyyyyyyy lol.

Maybe it's my Canadian-ness showing through, but the first time I read "Livejack Special II" my brain said "Lumberjack Live" and I was momentarily confused. Kumi as a lumberjack is a strange (though not completely out there) mental picture. :no sorry for being off topic...

^ lol next image she should be going for then! LumberKuu! xD

AH I almost forgot about this lol... I was thinking how on earth did she have so many more lives compared to Ayu, Namie and Utada Hikaru combined?!

^ bad fan :laugh
Aww I wanna see the live

I really like her red dress, she looks awesome.

The fancam from Ecstasy at TGC is amazing, it looks so hot! Especially Kuu on the stairs. :lech
And thanks for th LiveJack pics, she looks great there as well.
Hopefully we can see both soon!

She looks okay and pretty.
I can't wait for the two lives, especially TGC *-*

ooohhh I like it :yes

I want to see this too! I love those three songs.

I'm still jamming to Universe :love

arghh!! i'm dying to see the performance!!
download-able fileeee pleaaaseeee :dead2

anyway, i want to know UNIVERSE Tour song setlist :(

oh me too!!!!1111

this week's update

36, 4,587, 346,423, BEST~third universe~ & 8th AL “UNIVERSE”, , , 倖田來未

i know this is old news, but Kuu looks fantastic in the pepsi commercial.

is there any news about her version of "Got to be real" being released?

^ if I'm not wrong, both Kobukuro and Laruku released the covers they did for the Pepsi CM digitally/on radio. I wonder why kumi not, maybe because she'll release the song in a future single? I hope so since I love the kuu version so much!

oh me too me too i am still not bored of any of the songs :love

^ i'm in her old albums mood xD

I'm still jamming to Step Into My World and You're So Beautiful almost every day, hah. Those have become two of my favourite Kuu songs ever! ^_^

LOL me too. UNIVERSE got old for me way too soon. =[

omfg that is amazing :luv2

I can't get tired of some songs from UNIVERSE yet. You're So Beautiful, Work It Out, Can We Go Back, No Way, UNIVERSE and Moon Crying (Live ver. in Taiwan) they all are amazing to me! :heart

http://imagehotel.net/images/l1ieyp8g54.jpg

this is fake but cool looking anyway xD

UNIVERSE is great but obviously BLACK CHERRY is the best

i dunno, [grow into one] has some great tracks -
to be one(!!), boy friend, nasty girl, one night romance, love across the ocean...

[secret] is also wicked, a lot of good tunes there...

i really like [TRICK] as well, Driving (awesomeness), TABOO, JUST THE WAY YOU ARE, show girl, Joyful, Venus, this is not a love song etc...

UNIVERSE was a bit of a letdown... but the whole concept of having it overshadowed by a frickin' best of was really a highlight of how messed up the japanese music industry is these days :-/

^ true that about the best. pity that it didnt even help boost sales or anything =/

i still love UNIVERSE though. i think, like a lot of her albums, its a grower. on the first few listens i thought the album was quite bland but now i really treasure each track on it :yes You're so beautiful, UNIVERSE, No Way, Stay, Work it Out, Step Into My World... heck i love all the tracks ^^;

with Black Cherry i think the single tracks overshadowed the album ones way too much for me to love it more than her other albums as other than Get Up&Move! it had no really 'STRONG' album track. with her older albums like grow into one & feel my mind, i think the album tracks for them overshadow the single ones! (i would say this is the case for TRICK too but TABOO & Moon Crying......:heart XDD)

so i think UNIVERSE has got a good mix of album+single tracks like secret & Kingdom :heart

oh my that looks amazing :luv2

wish I was this artistic to begin with T-T

Love UNIVERSE. actually, it definitely excelled my expectations lol! I love how diverse everything is..even the cuter songs are tolerable. Black Cherry was strong but that was 5 years ago..(time sure flies) so..yea, Im loving UNIVERSE..for me, its her best since BC..TRICK's standout tracks overshadowed the rest

piano solo version of Alive and Moon Crying. a pity they're just short versions
beautiful ! almost make me cry :weep

^wow... simply divine. <3

^^ so pretty..

Hm, I need to download her older stuff too. I lost interest in listening to UNIVERSE already @_@

Kuu at TBS『もう涙が止まらない 感動のワケあり結婚式 しあわせ結婚計画』

http://www.mypicx.com/thumb/1710265249_03242010_1.jpg

she looks classy :luv2

Some remixes are short, why can't they release full remixes on itunes?... :shakehead

1.Lick me□ [Prog5 BIG BASS Remix][2:47]
2.Driving [GROOVE HACKER$ Remix][3:57]
3.ECSTASY [Caramel Pod E Remix][3:51]
4.キューティーハニー [MITOMI TOKOTO Big Room Remix][5:41]
5.Rain [PLUG in LANGUAGE Remix][3:40]
6.Shake It Up [HOUSE NATION Sunset In Ibiza Remix][5:09]
7.No Regret [FUTURE HOUSE UNITED Remix][3:31]
8.LAST ANGEL feat.東方神起 [neroDoll Remix][4:14]
9.UNIVERSE [Pink Chameleons Remix][3:57]
10.you [Floor on the Intelligence Remix][3:52]
11.1000の言葉 [Shohei Matsumoto & Junichi Matsuda Remix][5:23]
12.hands [The Standard Club PIANO DANCE Remix][4:27]
13.大切な君へ [DJ Ryuzo 702 Remix][5:46]
14.stay with me [Tomoharu Moriya Remix][6:15]
15.夢のうた [Sunset In Ibiza Remix][5:09]
16.Trust Your Love [Terminal Vox Remix][2:54]
17.love across the ocean [Caramel Pod Remix][2:56]

Source: http://books.rakuten.co.jp/rb/item/6371598/

I really lik that picture. She looks beautiful.

gorgeous. <3

It really looks classy and nice.
And I like shorter remixes more ^^

Kuu at TBS『もう涙が止まらない 感動のワケあり結婚式 しあわせ結婚計画』
she sang Futari de... a cappella :heart

Moon Crying at『Livejack Special II』
:weep

her vocals are so good in each of those! i love futari de.. acapella, its a good wedding song.

:(

That was beautiful.

:scry Moon Crying was :luv2

@Genie: I wouldn't cry if she sings on my wedding day.. but faint :laugh
She's so nice!

such beautiful performances :) she is too sweet and lovely!

Can someone tell me if two booklets come with the 2CD + DVD version of Best third universe and universe? I just got my copy and I just have a booklet for the best. Its a HK version if that makes any difference.

^ yes if its got both CDs it should have 2 booklets, 1 for the BEST and 1 for universe.

this is the cover for universe booklet
http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/8...lbest12.th.jpg
this is for the BEST
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/1...lbest03.th.jpg

being HK version shouldnt make any difference to the content. they just have an additional lyric sheet with the chinese translation if i'm not mistaken

Thanks for the reply and I'm going to send YESASIA a piece of mind right now.

:yes i love both booklets, though i hate her outfits in the future one. i can get over that though, i love the b~ss~ themed one!

i always think of how her bf stole her fridge when they broke up :laugh

^ omg yes.
I love how she gets all imaginative..it's so cute.

Kuu at Livejack Special II

Moon Crying
You're So Beautiful + Can We Go Back

I'll be in opposite of course, I know it already.

Livejack Special... Nothing amazed me. Her voice could be better.

She's really working that new hair, isin't she?

I like it..she looks mature.

You're So Beautiful sounds just like the cd. :love

good perfs kuu!

omg me too :thud

she sounded lovely in the livejack performances, wish they were longer tho

so what songs do you guys think she'll perform at UNIVERSE tour? i hope she sings the majority of the album tracks like she did with TRICK and also adds some old songs she's rarely or ever performed like Believe or saigo no ame

in a few days Driving Hits 2 will be released. I'm soo excited <3333

^i completely forgot about that! now i'm anxious. xD

Did any of you guys buy Driving Hits 2?

Nope. Lol. I forgot it even came out!! D: *goes to get Rain!!!!!*

...... God LOL I wish I could buy thr First Press but well I'm still broke from Rock 'n' Roll Circus.. sucks..

:no for me

hopefully a Taiwan press for this will be announced soon though

Live CWGB performance

OMFG. Futari de...acapella :heart:heart:heart:heart

i hope she performs almost the whole cd tbh... i can think of how each performance would be. i bet you superstar and comes up will be so cute :laugh i do hope she mixes in a few oldies, like gentle words and some of the songs from secret era. those are my favorite.

i hope she doesn't perform work it out... it's like the "hurry up!" of universe for me. :no

^ oh that's sad... I like Work It Out! In fact I think she'll be so cute performing that & SUPERSTAR in the air stewardess outfit that was on her tour merchandise!

And I can't wait for No Way live too... omg that will be so epic

i tried to like work it out, but the chorus kills it for me. i don't like the arrangement at all :(

hurry up took a while to grow on me, but i usually skip it.

those are the only two songs i don't really like though. the rest are :love

^ Oh I liked how funky the whole song is... with the cool beats and all; the chorus is a little scream-y but it's fun to scream along anyway :P

Hurry Up! was okay.... not so into it lol

paiseh ar Jun Xiang , I don't like Work It Out too

I feel that it's really lazy X_X . I take Hurry Up though haha xD

I HATE U :gnash lol jk. XD

I will buy Driving Hit's 2 along with the next single btw ^^


Schedule updated (lol. this gurl is amazing :laugh)

TV
4/1（木） 19:00～22:54 TBS『あなたが聴きたい歌の4時間スペシャル』
Magazine
4/16（金）予定 『TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION 公式BOOK(仮)』

Me,too.
I wanted to go to her tour this year,too.
But I can't get free because it's my school months ;_;
And anyways I don't know how to get the tickets from here=(

^ I want to go to one of her concerts too : (
I wonder if she is gonna make something special for her 10th anniversary in december..
another "SPECIAL FINAL in TOKYO DOME" woul be awesome :luv2

definitely :heart

Chaku-Uta Ranking
2010/03/24

45 - ふたりで・・・ 倖田來未

OMG Futari de... is again at Chaku.Uta =)
Awesome^^

NINKI for Driving Hit's 2

http://i41.tinypic.com/2f051lh.jpg

well I'm certain that it will get top 10 status :shrug

Let's hope for it will get at least a spot like the first one (#5-10 somewhere it was wasn't it?)

^ It was #7 wasn't it?

I forgot T-T

anyway Taiwan press of Driving Hit's 2 will be out next Fri just like V6's READY ? album

http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=431405679179

I think so, too.
And Out Works was #8 or sometthing like that..?!?!

Yeah. OUT WORKS & COLLABORATION BEST was at #8 i think.